BPRO’S STRANGE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PARTNER Arizona’s elections are now famous around the country for massive irregularities, incompetence, and fraud. It will surprise no one that BPro is right in the middle of Arizona’s elections as one of the contractors that teamed up to create Arizona’s voter database called AVID (Access Voter Information Database). In 2017, a company called “Sutherland Government Solutions” (a subsidiary of Sutherland Global Solutions) sought out BPro and another Arizona company called “Expert Technology Services Arizona (ETSAZ) to partner with them to create the AVID system. Sutherland, a billion-dollar net annual revenue company, has a set of skills that you wouldn’t typically associate with a voter registration database. Take this very curious statement from their website: “We make digital human. At Sutherland, we create exceptionally engineered brand experiences that are a perfect match for the real people (and real moments) they’re made for. We do that by combining human-centered design with the scale & accuracy of real time analytics, AI, cognitive technology and automation.” Why would a company that specialized in AI, real-time analytics, and automation be needed to create and maintain a database for Arizonans?
COMPANY WHO HELPED BUILD ARIZONA’S REGISTRATION DATABASE A section from the BPro/Sutherland proposal to the State of Arizona states: “Team Sutherland has experience with data analytics, the use of algorithms for problem solving…For example, if a particular polling location experience long lines during periods of the day, analytics could be used to understand why. Possible approaches to examine this situation could combine the time stamps that ballots are cast with the address locations of voters when they check in at the polling place to highlight driving distances used by voters. The results may point to a better or additional polling location to help minimize wait times…” Using analytics to reduce wait times at the polls sounds great. You would think with tools like that the utter debacle that was the Maricopa County 2022 midterm elections could never have happened. But evidence presented in court and to the public strongly indicate that someone with access to the election management system purposely sabotaged ballot images used to print ballots at the polling sites so they would be rejected by tabulators on Election Day. Another shocking revelation revealed that Maricopa County election officials kept a heat map of expected Republican voters hanging on their wall and almost all the voting centers with machine problems were in deep red districts.
HEAT MAP SHOWING LOCATIONS OF LIKELY REPUBLICAN VOTERS HANGING IN MARICOPA COUNTY ELECTION CENTER Could the advanced analytics Sutherland built into AVID be used to sabotage an election in Republican precincts using AVID? It’s clear someone in Maricopa County was thinking along those lines.
